NEW YORK-Frank Borzellieri, a principal at Our Lady of School Mount Carmel in the Bronx, a school in which most students are Black and Latino has been connected to white supremacist groups and philosophies. The New York Daily News reports: In 2004, Borzellieri wrote the book “Don’t Take It Personally: Race, Immigration, Crime and Other […]
BRONX, N.Y. — A water-main break flooded the streets of the Bronx, causing headaches for many commuters and residents earlier this morning. The 36-inch pipe from 1903 broke around 4 a.m. near Jerome Avenue and East 177th Street. It was brought under control at 9:20 a.m. but the damage had already been done to the […]
BRONX — A 13-year-old Bronx prodigy was accepted to the University of Connecticut, however the university later called her father to rescind the offer, stating she is not academically ready. Batin Ashante said his daughter, Autum, is devastated by the sudden news. The NY Daily News and a host of news agencies reported about Autum’s […]
NEW YORK–A 17-year-old girl viciously attacked a female New York City bus driver Tuesday, after she was told she could not board with her dog. Steangeli Medina was stopped from getting on the Bx9 in the Bronx on Fordham Road in Belmont just before 6 p.m., according to officials. The driver, Marlene Bien-Aime, 48, noticed a […]
NEW YORK-Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook was sworn in as the first African American to be the White House Ambassador For Religious Freedom. The New York Daily News reports: She was the first woman to serve as a chaplain for the NYPD, a position she has held since 1990. After 9/11, she helped traumatized police officers […]
BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, the deejay many credit with founding hip hop music is very ill without health insurance to help him pay his medical bills. DJ Premier of the group Gangstarr said on his Sirius radio show: For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing […]
Fox News pundit, Glenn Beck has heavily criticized the Bronx’s Co-Op city, a cooperative housing development that offers affordable housing. He compared the development to communist Russia. On his Fox show he said: Once you say there’s a place where everyone’s life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these […]
SARATOGA-New York Daily News Details are unfolding in the case of Latino Skidmore College student, Justin Tavarez,  charged with a hate crime for smashing a plate over a white man’s head. The New York Daily News reports: A college student from the Bronx has been charged with a felony hate crime upstate after smashing a […]
